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Update: The producer made some comments about the segment on the CBS website. Just some of my reactions to the 60 Minutes segment on sexual orientation. This is addressed to an assistant to the segment’s producer who invited me to respond. Robin: In the piece, this narration was near the…
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Here is a press release from SoulForce about Regent University. In contrast to this release, I had a conversation with Mark Yarhouse at Regent today about several matters and in the process he let me know that he was disappointed about how Equality Ride has misreprented Regent. He was looking…
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60 Minutes is airing a segment about the science of sexual orientation Sunday night – looks like “must see tv.”
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Off to jail for the Eriders in the first stop…
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I posted below about the join effort of GLSEN and CEAI to endorse the First Amendment Center’s Guidelines about sexual orientation in public schools. The link was broken and now the guidlines are on the FAC’s website: http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=16612 This is a good effort and perhaps should be consulted by Soulforce.
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Imagine you’re a liberal democrat and your conservative republican neighbor calls and says, “Hey, we are coming over to your house next Tuesday in order to dialogue with your kids about the benefits of conservativism.” Your neighbors say they will drop in sometime that day and leave a copy of…
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Ok, so not many wanted to guess. Can’t say I blame anyone; there wasn’t much to go on. However, these cases present some of the assumptions that conservatives often make when conceptualizing male homosexuality. I used a similar exercise about girls and eating disorders in one of my classes recently.…
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Busy blogging day for me… I had input early in this process and again near the end… http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=62009 ADDENDUM: Here is a more comprehensive article about the guidelines with a link to the document: http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2006/03/09/1443706.htm
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The Soulforce Equality Ride cometh. Asuza Pacific Univ. scheduled a prequel to their upcoming visit by the Soulforce crew on March 1, 2006 to coincide with their annual common day of learning. I was originally scheduled to go but had a conflict here and had to back out. Randy Thomas…
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A commenter requested that I have a look at this article by British gay activist, Peter Tatchell. I had seen it before but it is worth reviewing. I agree with most of it and certainly agree that whether someone is born gay is a separate question from public policy or…
